CIDER - PRODUCERS - CELEBRATION - PERRY - LUNCHES - Round and about: Open all weekend Trumpet Corner (HR8 2RA) Tea room offering light lunches alongside gallery showcasing work of guest artists (01531 670082). 10am - 4pm As the flowers set The Nest, Little Verzons (HR8 2PZ) Relaxed family friendly café, for this year’s local grocery store, picnic boxes for the orchard (01531 670816) – apples, the plus next door Newent Plant Centre (01531 670121). 9am – 5pm (10am – 4pm Sun) cider made from last Blossomtime Westons Cider, Much Marcle (HR8 2NQ). Guided mill tours (charge autumn’s crop becomes applies) at 11am, 12.30pm, 2pm, 3.30pm. Cider sales, Tea room, Children’s Play Area. 10am – 4pm ready to taste…. Nearby pubs: Trumpet Inn Woolhope: Butchers Arms, Crown Inn Much Marcle: Royal Oak, Scrumpy House (daytime only), MARCLE RIDGE COUNTRY Slip Tavern, Walwyn Arms Come to Blossomtime simply to enjoy this wonderful stretch of countryside. Fields, HOW TO FIND US: orchards and woodland create a living farming patchwork. The slopes of the Marcle Ridge offer Putley lies south of the Ledbury to Hereford road. A splendid views across to the Malvern Hills to the key point is the Trumpet crossroads with its garage east: to the west Woolhope is within the Wye Valley and inn. We are just 15 minutes from the M50 Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. motorway, 2.5 hours from London and 1.25 hours from South Wales and the West Midlands. Worcester FOR MORE INFORMATION: inin PutleyPutley To Birmingham A417 M5 Malvern www.bigapple.org.uk Hereford EMAIL - [email protected] TRUMPET A449 FIND - ‘The Big Apple’ on facebook A438 or tweet us @TheBigAppleHfd PUTLEY Ledbury Sunday 30th April & Monday 1st May 2017 A417 M50 For programme information, phone Mrs. Jackie Denman J2 on (01531) 670544. Our website includes details of A449 accommodation in the area. A seasonal B4215 M50 celebration of Newent A417 Cheltenham apples, orchards Ross-on-Wye A40 A40 and cider in the A40 Gloucester Herefordshire To Scan for quick access to our website. Cardi To parishes of the Bristol M5 Remember to visit us for Harvestime too! Marcle Ridge Saturday 14th & Sunday 15th October 2017 - WALKS - TALKS - TASTINGS - ORCHARDS - BLOSSOM - In Much Marcle Here is a special springtime opportunity to enjoy the lovely countryside and orchards of the Marcle Ridge area of BlossomtimeBlossomtime Herefordshire, where local orchards are famous both for their cider fruit and their dessert and culinary fruit. The events are based around a grand cider tasting in Putley also apple juices to taste. You can enjoy a walk through Village Hall, where you will find an array of traditional ciders the orchards around Putley, with or without a guide, then and perries from Herefordshire and surrounding counties, refresh yourselves with excellent homemade food. together with some of the makers for you to meet. Walk across the orchards to Aylton to visit the refurbished Blossomtime is not just for cider enthusiasts, there are Manorial Barn and Aylton Church. Special events: Sunday 30th April GrandGrand CiderCider TastingTasting AndAnd TeasTeas Special events: Monday 1st May 9.30am Walking to the Wonder A walk through the orchards of Putley with occasional readings of blossom 9.30am Natural history of orchards – guided walk to time haiku from our own haiku poet, David Walker. No discover local wildlife with Herefordshire Ornithological dogs please. Donations welcome. (Return in time for talk at Club. No dogs please. 1½ hours. Meet DRO 11.15). Meet PVH 11.15am ‘The Apple: Magic and Mythology’. Pete Brown, 11.15am Bees - and the Fascinating World of Pollination. a writer specialising in “making people thirsty” and author Bee advocate and wildlife gardener, Brigit Strawbridge, will of BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week ‘The Apple Orchard’, will talk about her love of native wild bees and explain why share some of the myths associated with apples from Eden they are so important to biodiversity. £3.50 (children<16 onwards and why ritual and magic still seem important to free) At DRO Putley Village Hall, HR8 2QN us. £3.50 (children<16 free). AT DRO From 12.30pm Cheese ploughman’s lunch in restored th From 12 noon Delicious lunches, proceeds to Village Hall. Grade II* cruck barn. £6 (£4 for hot dog). 12.30–2.30pm Sunday 30 April: 2pm to 6pm At PVH Church open next door and creative activities in the Ox Monday 1st May: 12noon to 5pm 1.30pm Guided walk through the orchards and fields of Byre with our local, internationally renowned, screen Putley. £1.50 (children free). 1¼ hours. Meet PVH printing team Sunny and Emma Todd (donation). Proceeds to Aylton Church and RABI (Royal Agricultural Benevolent Cider, perry and apple juice tasting From 2pm Apple teas will be served by Putley WI. At PVH Institution). At CFA £2 for 6 tokens on the door 3pm Leominster Morris will dance at Putley Village Hall From 2pm Apple teas will be served by Tarrington At PVH Brownies. At PVH Leaflets available for self-guided orchard walks From 3pm Fiddlers Two - folk trio performing wide range of traditional fiddle tunes from around the world, from CIDER AND PERRY SALES from: gentle airs and waltzes to rip-roaring foot-stompers. Jigs, Avenue Cottage Perry Reels and Fiddle Surreals! At PVH Bartestree Cider 3.30pm Guided walk through the orchards and fields of Cwm Maddoc Cider Putley. £1.50 (children free). 1¼ hours. Meet PVH Gregg’s Pit Cider and Perry Lyne Down Cider “A unique blend of orchards in blossom Oliver’s Cider and Perry Once Upon a Tree Cider and Perry and traditional cider tasting” Author Pete Brown & “The Apple Orchard” Also: Jus Apple Juice; Anne Crane with her bee friendly plants and advice for making your garden a pollinator paradise; Paul Hand of ‘Bees and Trees’ with fruity Locations: activities; Sarah Blenkinsop, Moors Wood Forest School PVH (Putley Village Hall, HR8 2QN, GR651375); with seed sowing, plant sales and advice on compost CFA (Court Farm, Aylton, HR8 2RQ, GR658376); and keeping chickens; Pork and Two Veg (Sunday) with DRO (Dragon Orchard, Putley HR8 2RG, GR652381) tastings of locally reared pork sausages..